Fence



(No Model.)

0. D. HEARN.

FENCE.

No. 378,312. Patented Feb. 21, 1888.

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FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 378,312, dated February 21, 1888.

Application filed December 15, 1887.

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Be it known that I, ORIN D. IIE-inn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lebanon, in the county of 1Wilson and State of Tennessee, have invented certain new and useful Iniprovements in Fences; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ol' the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the saine.

My invention relates to that class of fences in the formation of which posts, slats, and wire are employed; and it consistsin the novel construction hereinafter specied and claimed.

The nature of theinvention will be fully understood from the following description and claim, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective View of a fence embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is an end View of the same, and Fig. 3 is a detail view of part of the fence.

Referring to the said drawings by letter, A indicates the posts of my fence, B the panels, C the stakes, and D the riders.

In constructing this fence I first set two or more posts in the ground at suitable distances apart and drive staples in the sides thereof In these staples, respectively, I hook the end of a wire and place one end of a rail or slat thereon, and then draw the wire in an oblique direc` tion upward until it reaches the'top of said rail, over the top of which it is passed and made secure in a staple, c, on the opposite side of the post. From the staple last mentioned the wire is passed over two more rails in the opposite oblique direction and secured in a similar staple, as shown, and repeat the process until thei'eneeis ol' the proper altitude to receive the stakes and riders, when the wire is secured in a staple near the top of the post.

G indicates a short wire thatis passed under the second rail from the top partly around a' post, and has its ends secured by staples driven in the outside of the stakes G, as shown on the drawings. I call this my bracingwire. Alter the riders are properly arranged upon the stakes I take another bracing-wire,

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H, and after passing it over the top of the riders secure its ends by staples f, driven into the stakes at the points indicated on the drawings. It will readily be observed that these bracing-wires G and II co-operate in giving great firmness and stren th to those portions of the fence to which they are attached, and that afence built in the manner represented possesses unusual iirinness and solidity. It should be here observed that these bracingwires are secured to the outer sides of the stakes by staples, and that the opposite ends of the respective wires are attached to the opposite sides of the stakes. Thus it will be seen that while one of the said bracing-wires will have a tendency to twist the stakes in one direction the other wire will have a tendency to twist the same post in the opposite direction, but as the force of each wire is equal one will counteract the torsional action oi the other and iirmlyretain thestakesin proper position. It will also be observed that these brace-wires aresingle, and that I do not employ any twists in the wires, as such destroy their texture and impair their usefulness. It will also be seen that by making these wires single and using them as shown and described I get all of the advantages of using two full loops, as heretofore employed, one above and one below the fork of the stakes, and at the same time I employ an amount of wire equal to that of an ordinary loop at one point.

Having described my invention, what I claim is The combination, in a rail fence, ofthe short posts A, panels B, secured thereto by wires, inclined stakes C, bearing against the tops of the posts, riders D, and the bracing-wires G and H, one arranged above and the other below the fork of the stakes, the ends of each wire beingsecured by staples to the oppositey sides of the respective stakes, substantially as specied.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature presence ol'I two witnesses.

ORIN D. HEARN.

IVtnesses:

T. En. Tuarrn, O. W. DnsHinLL. 

